Friday, November 11, 2016

Thank you for the great energy and work at our October 19th
Meeting! We are grateful for the time you took out of your day to join us for
this meeting, and we are honored to work with all of you!

Update since the
October 19th meeting:

Amanda Read, YWCA MotherLove Program and LaVie Montgomery,
Project NAF, will be visiting Kalamazoo, Michigan for Kalamazoo Infant
Mortality Community Action Initiative's 3rd Annual Strategic Intent Meeting
where they will learn more about how Kalamazoo is combating infant mortality in
their city. Dr. Arthur James will be the keynote speaker at the event, and they
also plan to attend a luncheon with Dr. James as well. Amanda and LaVie would like to know if you
have any questions or input that you would like addressed on their visit to
Kalamazoo. Please send your thoughts to Amanda at
amanda.read@ywcaofasheville.org by 11/15.

Next Steps

The strategies/actions that arose from our meeting were:

Action Item

Follow-up

Root Causes of Death data

Expand Child Fatality Prev. Task Force to
include MAHEC Ob/Gyn physician to go deeper into mother’s health record and
social determinants of health as possible contributors to infants’ deaths

Dr. Jennifer Mullendore and Dr. Cindy Brown will work with
the Child Fatality Prevention Team to expand representation and gather this
data.

Home Visiting Programs

Convene all programs that currently do home
visitation (NFP, Project NAF, Motherlove, CCWNC, Verner, etc.) to identify
where the gaps are, etc. (There was discussion about this growing into a
longer-term home visitation collaborative, if useful).

Pilot post-partum (health care) home
visitation

CHIP staff will work with Ami Greene and Dr. Beth Buys to
explore next steps

Dr. Arthur Ollendorff and Greg Borom will meet to finalize plan.
If you are interested in participating in this effort, please contact Maggie
Adams, Community Centered Health Home Project Coordinator at maggie.adams@mahec.net

Below are links to the meeting materials as well as the scorecard
below:

It has been a few months since we last met. Since that time, CHIP Partners have had many
opportunities to learn about the issues that frame our CHIP priorities
-specifically around health disparities & health equity. For a summary of two of these events, please
click here. In addition to these events, we've also completed the first
iteration of our Infant Mortality scorecard, as well as conducted research into
data and strategies.

It's now time to reconvene and determine which strategies we
collectively want to work on. Our next meeting is scheduled on:

October 19th; 3-5pm

Cherokee Room, MAHEC Education Building

121 Hendersonville Road, Asheville

DRAFT AGENDA

New information/data on the curve(s) we are focused on
turning

Root
causes of death- update from BC Child Fatality Prevention Team

Other
data we need?

New information or insight on the story behind those curves

Reflection
on our time with Dr. Arthur James

Update
on movement/activity since then

Partners with a role to play (Partner Updates)

Community
Centered Health Home

Buncombe
County Health & Human Services

Other
updates?

New information on what works to do better in our community

NC
Perinatal Health Strategic Plan

NICHQ
recommendations

Between now and our meeting, I also ask that you visit the
scorecard and provide feedback on what is missing or needs to be changed. The
following linkis to the main Buncombe County CHIP Scorecard that includes all
of our priority work. A brief video
tutorial is provided to help you learn how to navigate the scorecard. Scroll down the page to find our Infant
Mortality Result where all our work to-date has been captured.